The most read article in October was Overgaard et al’s comparison of birth outcomes in freestanding midwifery units and obstetric units in Denmark. The article by Holden et al on the costs of prescribing analogue insulin remains highly viewed in second place and McGlade et al’s study of the regional variation in organ donation in the UK received coverage […]
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Most popular articles in September
September’s most-accessed articles are topped by the article by Holden et al. on costs to the UK NHS of prescribing analogue insulin. This article prompted some strongly worded responses on our site, and you can read the responses here. The BBC, among others, also covered this research (view their report here). Click on the titles to view the articles […]
BMJ Open aiding data discovery
We have now published two articles with supplementary data accompanying the article deposited with the Dryad repository: Heneghan et al. on medical device recalls with data here, and Dmello et al. on cystic fibrosis with data here. Authors can share supplementary data or underlying datasets through Dryad. BMJ Open is the first medical journal […]
BMJ Open and BMJ articles on device recalls
Yesterday BMJ Open published ‘Medical-device recalls in the UK and the device-regulation process: retrospective review of safety notices and alerts‘. This paper sits with features, analysis and commentary in the BMJ and the latest edition of Dispatches, ‘The truth about going under the knife’, on Channel 4 (tonight, 16 May, 8 pm). The full list […]
BMJ Open publishes first papers; coverage on BBC’s Today, Washington Post …
BMJ Open has published its first papers. You can visit the site here. If you are looking for the paper by Bruno et al. on locked-in syndrome, as covered by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the BBC News website, the Washington Post, Times of India, etc., you can find it here. […]
BMJ joins the ‘open’ debate
BMJ Open is the first BMJ Group journal to use fully open peer review Revealing to authors who has peer reviewed their article has helped to make the process fairer and increase the credit for reviewers, according to a recent editorial published by the BMJ. BMJ Deputy Editor, Trish Groves presents her perspectives on the […]
BMJ Open in PubMed Central
This week BMJ Open received confirmation the journal has been accepted for inclusion in the NLM collection and so may deposit articles in PubMed Central (PMC). This means that by publishing in BMJ Open authors will meet the requirements of major funders such as the Wellcome Trust by making their articles open access and ensuring their deposition in PMC. Another reason […]
Special launch offer
To celebrate 15 years of online and open access publishing at the BMJ Group, any articles submitted to BMJ Open before 31 January 2011 will have their article-processing charge waived at acceptance. In May 1995 the BMJ became the first general medical journal to launch itself into cyberspace – see the development of bmj.com here. […]
BMJ Group at COASP 2010
The BMJ Group was represented at the 2nd Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers (COASP) by Dr Trish Groves of the BMJ. You can watch her presentation on open access at the BMJ Group here. […]
BMJ Open instructions for authors posted
Instructions on how to prepare a manuscript for submission to BMJ Open can be found here. Our manuscript submission site is in development; a notice will be posted on this site as soon as it is ready, so keep checking back. […]